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Monday, July 20, 2009

Dar-es-Salaam has started a large- scale project to promote the use of bicycles to ease access to the central business district. Under the project, the streets of the fastest growing Dar- es -Salaam City of nearly four million residents are to be reconstructed to allow for bicycle users to have exclusive lanes to ride without fear or subjugation to cars even in the down town area.

[African cities now move ahead of Canadian ones in their planning and committment to cycling. -MH]

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Michael is the Director of TransActive Solutions, a company working for Canadian communities to help them become more walkable, bikeable, and otherwise friendly to human-powered modes of travel. He is the former National Active Transportation Coordinator for Go for Green and Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Trails Federation.

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